We’ve had rain all day in Emporia. Driving down Ninth Street is like driving a ski boat and crossing the wake. There’s that “krrrr” as the car catches the deep water. Western Kansas is getting the precipitation in the form of snow, blowing snow, blizzardy snow; we’re getting the rain. So far.

I drove to Wichita and back this evening. (A friend had a book-signing, but more on that in a different post.) It takes about an hour to get to Wichita via the Kansas Turnpike, and for about 40 minutes of that trip, I got to watch a long and glorious sunset. This, my friends, is […]